Bonnie Prince Charlie
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In this highly acclaimed study Frank McLynn brings vividly before us the man Charles Edward Stuart who became known to legend as Bonnie Prince Charlie and whose unsuccessful challenge to the Hanoverian throne was followed by the crushing defeat at Culloden in 1746. He argues powerfully that failure was far…
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This is simply the best biography of Charles Edward Stuart. It is meticulously researched and absolutely gimlet-like in its analysis of the man and his career.
Yet though McLynn depicts the prince warts and all (and some of the warts, such as his propensity for domestic violence, are pretty disgusting), he retains a fundamental sympathy for the flawed human being. In the larger sense it is very much an account, too, of the gathering degradation of a man who in other circumstances might have become a radical, reforming monarch.
From Daniel's list on the Jacobite Risings.
The most detailed and thorough, balanced and thoughtful, biography of the hero of 1745- or its villain, depending on your politics.
The difficult childhood, brilliant youth, entitled and bitter middle age, and drunken and abusive old age of the Prince are all brilliantly covered in a magisterial study that examined 100,000 documents, and is still a good read after all that.
From Murray's list on how Jacobitism had a different vision for Britain.
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